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. >>> the city of newtown, connecticut, has received so many gifts since the december 14th shooting at sandy hook elementary that a local official has asked people to stop sending items like teddy bears and blankets, because postal workers can't handle the volume. officials say they should donate the items to needy children and families in their own community instead. >>> another sign that people are truly worried about the fiscal cliff. an index that tracking consumer confidence fell more than expected in december, to 65.1. now, that's down from 71.5 reading in november, and well below the estimate of 70. barclay's economist deen mackey tells us, consumers, quote, recognize they face a large, potential drop in income if no agreement on the fiscal cliff is regioned soon. let's hope washington is listening. >>> environmental protection agency administrator lisa jackson has announced that she will step down from her post after the president's state of the union address in february. in a statement, jackson says she's leaving the epa, quote, confident the ship is sailing in the right direc
. >>> the city of newtown, connecticut, has received so many gifts since the december 14th shooting at sandy hook elementary that a local official has asked people to stop sending items like teddy bears and blankets, because postal workers can't handle the volume. officials say they should donate the items to needy children and families in their own community instead. >>> another sign that people are truly worried about the fiscal cliff. an index that tracking consumer...
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that's just around the time he stopped taking classes at western connecticut state university. now, this is according to the connecticut post which first broke the story and has this latest development on adam lanza's interest in the military. maryanne, thank you for taking the time of i can you spoke to one of nancy lanza's good friends. she told you adam was interested in joining the military. what was about it the military that made him interested? >> reporter: i think he had, what we're piecing together from ellen and other sources is that he had a fascination for a long ways back with things military-related. military equipment. he was a very, very bright young man. and when he first expressed that interest which was around the time he was ending his course work at western connecticut state university, initially his mother was very supportive of the idea and that's what several sources have told me. she was initially very supportive of it because it would have given him organization, structure, a career path even. and he was a very, very bright person. but as time wore on
that's just around the time he stopped taking classes at western connecticut state university. now, this is according to the connecticut post which first broke the story and has this latest development on adam lanza's interest in the military. maryanne, thank you for taking the time of i can you spoke to one of nancy lanza's good friends. she told you adam was interested in joining the military. what was about it the military that made him interested? >> reporter: i think he had, what...
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at the episcopal church in newtown, connecticut, the bell tolled 28 times. one time for each life lost, including the shooter's. as the people of newtown cope with how this tragedy took place, investigators continue to search for the why. what motivated 20-year-old adam lanza to go on a mass killing spree? cnn's susan candiotti joins me now with the very latest. nice to see you and have you with us this morning. is there any better sense on the part of investigators about what was adam lanza thinking? what was going through his mind? >> that's what we would all of course like to know. of course, investigators have been working very hard on all of this nonstop. so far, there is very little indication that he had much of an online presence, for example, did he flag his intentions to anyone online? did he play any online games with anyone? did he tell anyone what he was thinking about? these are the things they're trying to figure out. remember, they're still trying to work very hard to retrieve evidence from that hard drive. fbi working hard at quantico to try
at the episcopal church in newtown, connecticut, the bell tolled 28 times. one time for each life lost, including the shooter's. as the people of newtown cope with how this tragedy took place, investigators continue to search for the why. what motivated 20-year-old adam lanza to go on a mass killing spree? cnn's susan candiotti joins me now with the very latest. nice to see you and have you with us this morning. is there any better sense on the part of investigators about what was adam lanza...
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the governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut need nearly $80 billion in aid. that means the federal government. the president has called for a $60 billion recovery package and democrats have done just that but there is one problem, pork and a lot of it. is it larded up with a lot of non-sandy costs including $150 million for fisheries in alaska and $41 million for military bases including guantanamo bay and you can't get much further from the jersey shore. republicans refused the package and proposed a $24 billion alternative. it cuts $13 billion set aside to protect against future disasters. the solution should be simple, cut the pork and keep the relief on track. but if republicans and democrats can't agree on disaster relief how can they find common ground on entitlement reform and tax reform and avoiding the fiscal cliff. it's a reminder of the division and disfunction in d.c. the crippling disconnect from the common sense concerns of the american public. piers morgan is next. and one more thing...hurry. get a focus with 2000 cash plus 500 year end bonus c
the governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut need nearly $80 billion in aid. that means the federal government. the president has called for a $60 billion recovery package and democrats have done just that but there is one problem, pork and a lot of it. is it larded up with a lot of non-sandy costs including $150 million for fisheries in alaska and $41 million for military bases including guantanamo bay and you can't get much further from the jersey shore. republicans refused the...
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they were terrifying because they didn't understand their own power and obviously in connecticut, in newtown, one of the problems, may be, that that guy in some ways had a weapon that was too powerful -- more powerful than his personal development, basically. >> and the final question about afghanistan where you've september a lot of time. we were there last week and there was a suicide bomb in kandahar. soldiers died, afghans died. people seemed to be saying look, when the americans leave, there's going to be a civil war. things are going to devolve here. not everyone agrees, but this is how some think. you've spent so much time there. what do you think? >> i mean, this is the lowest level of civilian casualties in 30 years because nato forces are there. in russia, there was a blood bath in the '90s when i was there. it was a civil war. that war ended with 9/11. when nato went into afghanistan. it will probably, something like that will resume. i think it's probably going to be a civil war. clearly, pakistan wants to control afghanistan. clearly, the taliban want back in. it's going
they were terrifying because they didn't understand their own power and obviously in connecticut, in newtown, one of the problems, may be, that that guy in some ways had a weapon that was too powerful -- more powerful than his personal development, basically. >> and the final question about afghanistan where you've september a lot of time. we were there last week and there was a suicide bomb in kandahar. soldiers died, afghans died. people seemed to be saying look, when the americans...